Pressure has mounted for the prosecution of those mentioned in the Chickengate scandal on account of information relied on by the UK government to jail two of their nationals implicated.

The EACC investigators have largely focused on emails exchanged between Smith and Ouzman officials and some commission staff during and after the tendering period.

A senior official at the attorney-general’s office indicated that the emails would be key to unlocking the tender bribery between officials of the UK firm and the commission’s staff.

“We are not clear when the final report on the investigations will be released, although the chairman, Mr Philip Kinisu, said two weeks. We can rely only on the investigators to give us the way forward after proper analysis of the evidence,” said the spokesman of the commission, Mr Kairichi Marimba.

IN THE LINE OF FIREFormer IEBC chief executive officer James Oswago and Commissioner Yusuf Nzibo visited the commission two weeks ago to record fresh statements on the matter.

Others who have met investigators after the UK government released a mutual legal assistance report include Mr Trevy Oyombra.

Two Britons were found to have been involved in the scandal — in which IIEC and Kenya National Examinations Council officials are said to have pocketed Sh50 million as bribes to award tenders to Smith & Ouzman Ltd.

Nicholas Charles Smith, 43, who was the company’s sales and marketing director, was jailed for three years by the Southwark Crown Court for bribing officials of the IIEC and Knec.

Smith’s father, Christopher John Smith, 71, the chairman of the company, was sentenced to an 18-month suspended term for his role in the scandal.